Someone Murderous at the Midnight Motel by Kris Bock

Author:Kris Bock [Bock, Kris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781961544000
Published: 2023-06-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Jen headed to the car with our breakfast while I got my shoes on. I hobbled after her with my back aching and my hips sore and pain shooting down my left leg. I hadn’t expected fifty to feel so much worse than forty-eight, but then forty-nine had been a rough year. At least I was still moving. And no one expected me to wear a thong while I did splits up against a pole in front of an audience. Had to be grateful for that.

Jen had the car idling by the back passageway when I came out. I practically fell into it. I dragged my cane inside and got the door closed.

She pulled forward. “I assume you have a reason for following this woman.”

“Your faith in me is inspiring. Did you have something better to do?”

“Only if you count eating breakfast in a leisurely and comfortable manner.” Jen turned right out of the parking lot. The strip club had been to the left, so the dancer wasn’t jogging back there to pick up a forgotten item. “I never got a leisurely breakfast when my kids were younger, but now that they’re more self-sufficient, I’ve gotten in the habit.”

I pulled out my breakfast sandwich. “I don’t know what you mean.” I unwrapped it far enough to take a bite. “This is perfectly comfortable and leisurely.”

Jen glared. “Did you just pull this to disrupt my breakfast?”

“No, that’s merely a bonus.”

She turned her gaze back to the street. “You’d better be watching for our suspect, or whatever she is. I have to focus on driving.”

There weren’t many pedestrians. Just a few people in parking lots getting into or out of cars. “What was she wearing?”

“Pink T-shirt. White shorts. Blond hair in a ponytail. She certainly wasn’t trying to go unnoticed.”

We were headed roughly in the direction of the park where we’d had our meeting the day before. We were already in the outskirts of the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. If the map in my head was accurate, which was by no means guaranteed, we were heading farther away from the main city. I didn’t know of anything interesting in that direction.

“You’re sure she went this way?” I asked.

“I’m sure she was headed in this direction when she left the motel. I have no idea what she did after that. I was distracted by bringing you coffee and watching you loll about in bed.”

We passed a dive bar, a trendy-looking restaurant, some shabby strip malls, and a Starbucks. If I was going to jog, I’d want to get off the main street pretty quickly. Find a nice residential area, if there was one. From this street, it was hard to tell what you might find a block or two away. The neighborhoods could be even sketchier, or they could have been cleared out for new McMansion developments. But maybe she’d put on workout gear so her colleagues wouldn’t know she was hitting Starbucks and ask her to pick up something for them.

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